Thursday, July 11, 2013

It's an omen's orld

Our friend Sarah Arnold from Tennessee has a very good shot at the podium in the 7th Women's World Gliding Championships (WWGC). The competition is in France, and the races are over at about noon our time each day.

Today is the 9th of 10 days of competition. Going into today, Sarah was standing 3rd, only 26 points behind the leader. She completed the task today, but (as of this posting) has not yet been scored.

10 comments:

Ok, the glider in the logo completed a loop, apparently disappeared into some clouds (on instruments, of course, after filing an IFR flight plan), negotiating the last half of an Immelman, coming out into another loop, all while completing the first letter of two different words. Impressive, these women, huh !?

Very odd that you can have the fourth highest score and still get the bronze medal.... Was this a gender based decision, or would the FAI have done the same in a coed championship? A terrific result, of course.